Offering a Helping Hand to City Missions around New Zealand has become an important part of each year for the UPS Power Solutions team and this year we’ve grown our support to include Wellington and Christchurch.

With the opening of our new Christchurch branch, we are happy to have met the hard-working team at Christchurch City Mission and deliver vital supplies that will help improve Christmas for countless kiwi families.

Christchurch City Mission supports over 40,000 people with food and meals every year along with providing 30 beds for emergency accommodation at all times and assisting those in need with countless learning programmes and budget advisory services.

The Auckland City Mission has provided similar services for over 100 years and is aiming to exceed 2021’s total of 30,000 Christmas gifts and 9,000 food parcels.

Alongside delivering crucial food and household items, Wellington City Mission helped over 700 families through its Social Supermarket, that provides free assistance in a supermarket environment to anyone across the Wellington region in need of some extra help.

The idea of the Social Supermarket is that there is dignity in choice and people can have a sense of normality in what they do and not feel isolated or stigmatised by their circumstances.

The Missions all rely heavily on donated funds and items to ensure they can support kiwis in desperate need, and their work would not be possible without the generosity of New Zealanders who are able to donate vital food and household items.

Donations of non-perishable food items and toiletries will help fill their emergency food parcels. Good quality donated clothing, furniture and household goods will be delivered to people in need. At Christmas, gifts of new books and toys will be given to tamariki who would otherwise go without. Anything surplus goes to our Op Shops to help fund their essential services.

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If you would like to donate to any or all of the City Missions, please follow the links below:

Auckland City Mission: https://www.aucklandcitymission.org.nz/donate/

Christchurch City Mission: https://www.citymission.org.nz/donate

Wellington City Mission: https://wellingtoncitymission.org.nz/donate-now/